Network Coding Theory

Speaker:          Prof. Raymond Yeung   
                  The Chinese University of Hong Kong 
                  Hong Kong   

Title:            Network Coding Theory 

Date:             Monday, 16 Feb 2004 

Time:             4:00pm - 5:00pm 

Venure:           Lecture Theatre F (Leung Yat Seng Lecture Theatre) 
                  (near lift nos. 25/26)   


ABSTRACT: 

Network coding, a new concept in network communications, is generating 
much interest in information theory, coding theory, and computer science. 
Consider a point-to-point communication network on which a number of 
information sources are to be mulitcast to certain sets of destination 
nodes. The problem is to characterize the maximum possible thruputs.  
Contrary to one's intuition, network coding theory reveals that it is 
in general not optimal to regard the information to be multicast as a 
``fluid" which can simply be routed or replicated.  Rather, by employing 
coding at the nodes, bandwidth can in general be saved.  In this talk, 
we will introduce this subject and report the latest research developments. 

For information about networking coding theory, see the web page at 
                   http://www.networkcoding.info


BIOGRAPHY: 

Raymond W. Yeung received the B.S., M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical 
engineering from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, in 1984, 1985, and 1988, 
respectively. He joined the Performance Analysis Department at AT&T Bell 
Laboratories, Holmdel, in 1988. Since 1991, he has been with the Department 
of Information Engineering,  The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he 
is now a Professor and Director of the Internet Engineering Program. During 
2000-01, he completed a book entitled  {\it A First Course in Information 
Engineering} (Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 2002). He has held visiting positions 
at Cornell University, Nankai University, the University of Bielefeld, and 
University of Copenhagen.  His research interests include information theory 
and data communications.  He has been a Consultant in a project of Jet 
Propulsion Laboratory for salvaging the malfunctioning Galileo Spacecraft, 
and a Consultant for NEC, USA.

Prof. Yeung was a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information
Theory Society from 1999 to 2001.  He currently serves as Associate Editor 
for Shannon Theory of the {\it IEEE Transactions on Information Theory} and
an Editor-at-Large of {\it Communications in Information and Systems}.  
He has involved in organizing a number of conferences, and he will be a 
Technical Co-Chair for the 2006 IEEE International  Symposium on Information 
Theory to be held in Seattle.  He was a winner of the Croucher Award for 
2000/2001, and he is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Hong Kong Institution of 
Engineers.